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Bookmark this pageRough Magic (1995)
Director: Clare Peploe
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From Time Out Film Guide
A cack-handed venture into Romancing the Stone territory (from the James Hadley Chase novel Miss Shumway Waves a Wand), miscast, racist, old-fashioned, and all in all not much fun. Nice scenery, though. As a magician's assistant who takes off for Mexico to consult a shamen, Fonda lacks the charisma to hold this ramshackle lark together, while Peploe's duff special effects aren't exactly magical. The funniest sequence is also the most offensive: a comic-relief Mexican heavy is transformed into a fat sausage, and promptly eaten by a dog. Oh yes, and Bridget lays an egg.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Clare Peploe
Producer: Laurie Parker, Declan Baldwin
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent, DW Moffet, Paul Rodriguez, Euva Anderson full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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